The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ by Alexander Clapp “There is a reason why Mafia bosses tend to work in ‘waste management,’” ...

Former Missouri Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner writes about the inspiration she takes from a favorite poet, Williams Carlos ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle ... It only takes one to make life more complete. A picture: One of my favorite pictures is of Sandy when she was three or four. I didn’t meet her ...

My guest on Poetry from Daily Life this week is Michael Salinger, who lives in Mentor, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Michael says that his first poem was published in Scholastic magazine in fourth ...

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

The University of Michigan Library hosted “Sing, O Mother Tongue! A Celebration of World Languages Through Poetry." ...

Judy Collins' husband Louis Nelson, who designed the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., died in December at ...

Anyone misguided enough to think that poetry is just for the effete and the elite ought to take a look at this collection by ...

and daily socially distanced neighbourhood trots. Many poets, Saphra and Mackinnon among them, were frequently drawn to this tension in their poems of the time, and poets are almost always drawn ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin ... lending me Ammons’s wide-mouthed wonder at the everyday world: “the radiance, that it will look ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] Mu Dan was one of China's leading 20th century ... of New Birth), was recently published by ...